Steve Simmons wrote:

  It's how UNIX in general used to work (chown allowing you to give  
  away files) up through v7.

You've got it backwards.  Unix never allowed users to give away files up
through v7.  That ability was introduced in System III.  I think posix
allows either behavior.  Modern secure systems like OpenBSD disallow it.
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